Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders, 1096Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg., 1512Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean), 1520Sea battle at Dunes, Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish Armada under De Oquendo, 1639First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America, 1774US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston, 1797Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet & dies, 1805The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia, 1816Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England), 1824Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb, 1879First transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris, 1915Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time, 1945Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun, 1965The European Patent Institute is founded, 1977The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second, 1983Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz, 2003The European Parliament awards Cuban Dissident Guillermo Farinas the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, 2010

LOL - life is full of tough choices. I can remember my daughter carrying around her stuffed duckie toy All The Time! anything she tried to do, Duckie was right there; whether she needed both hands or not.